TENET

Christopher Nolan has always used his films to noodle with themes revolving around time and chronology. Memento famously played sequentially in reverse, opening with the end scene and finishing with the first. Interstellar had its characters visit a planet in a far-lung galaxy where one hour equalled seven years back on earth and explored the emotional impact of that on its characters. Dunkirk – his last film, was arranged in time-based sections of one hour, one day, one week etc. Inception messed around with the same ideas of chronology and slowing time - as well as using the storytelling language of a heist film as a basic structure to hang Nolan’s fixations with time on. In much the same way, Tenet uses the framework of a spy thriller to deliver similarly brain-spraining thrills….